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Radar

New Russian long-range radar, monitor NATO vessels in Bosphorus and Black Seas


RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 07:10 UTC
Russian radar
© Aleksandr Yurev / SputnikRussia's state of the art, long range watch tower.
The Russian military will deploy its newest long-range radars in the Baltic and Black Seas to keep a weather eye on NATO operations, according to Interfax. The radars are capable of monitoring warships and aircraft at a distance of up to 450km. "We expect the upgraded Podsolnukh over-the-horizon radar to come online in the Baltic by 2017," a military source told Interfax on Wednesday. He said a similar radar station is likely to be installed in Crimea, "able to detect any [foreign] warship passing through the Bosphorus."

Both radars would significantly reinforce Russia's capacity to monitor NATO's assets in these regions, where there has been a dramatic increase in the alliance's military exercises, surveillance operations and multiple naval deployments.

The Podsolnukh (Russian for "Sunflower") over-the-horizon radar is designed to detect, track and classify up to 300 sea and 100 aerial targets in automated mode at ranges of up to 450km (280 miles). It can also provide target acquisition for friendly warships and air defense systems beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for most conventional radars. Three Podsolnukh stations are currently operational in Russia's Far East and the Caspian Sea.

RTI Systems, Podsolnukh's manufacturer, said it will deliver several radar stations to the Defense Ministry in 2017. "In 2017, the Russian Defense Ministry plans to procure several stations for the Navy that would be deployed in the Arctic as well as in Russia's southern and western frontiers," Sergey Baev, director general of RTI Systems, told Interfax.

Over-the-horizon (OTH) radars typically use ionospheric reflection, meaning that radio signals sent towards the ionosphere are reflected back towards the ground. A small amount of the signal will then reflect off the ground back towards the atmosphere, and a small proportion of it will reflect back towards the broadcaster. Sea- and shore-based non-military OTH radars are also becoming increasingly popular with coastal countries, to protect their exclusive economic zones from piracy, smuggling and illegal fishing.

Comment: We are relegated to spending billions and trillions on offense/defense systems when we could be feeding the entire world instead. It boggles the mind. Truly.

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OSCE resolutions on Crimea blasted by Russian senator


RT
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:37 UTC
OSCE meeting
© en.trend.azDefending the interests of NATO.
The latest resolutions on Crimea, Abkhazia and South Ossetia passed by the OSCE demonstrate that the organization only defends the interests of NATO member states, the head of the Russian Upper House Committee for International Affairs has said.

"The resolution on Crimea passed at the Tbilisi session of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] Parliamentary Assembly as well as its resolutions on Abkhazia and South Ossetia would be worthy of attention only under the following condition: if they were among many resolutions that prove that this assembly cares about human rights all over the world regardless of geopolitical preferences of majority of its member nations," senator Konstantin Kosachev wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday. "The Tbilisi resolutions only demonstrate selectiveness of this body and crocodile tears shed on order," he added.

Kosachev emphasized that Russia's attitude to the OSCE would change radically only if the organization passed resolutions mentioning the rights of Russian-speaking minorities in Baltic countries and in Ukraine, the rights of the Serbian minority in Kosovo, or the legal status of Northern Cyprus.

Comment: NATO members obviously believe their own narratives beyond reasonable doubt, beyond facts.

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Attention

The real EU: Powerhouse and protection mechanism for pedophile elite

Wayne Madsen
Intrepid Report
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:23 UTC
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Madelaine Mccann went missing in May 2007 in Portugal. Her disappearance and probable murder were covered up by UK intelligence-linked firms.
It is entirely fitting that the European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi has decided to convene the annual meeting of ECB bankers in the Portuguese city of Sintra. Draghi and his fellow bankers are trying to decide how to mitigate the effects of the Brexit vote by Britain to leave the European Union. Sintra, which is outside of Lisbon, is a three hour drive from Praia da Luz, Portugal. And it is in the coastal resort town of Praia de Luz where the real story behind the British, Portuguese, French, Danish, Dutch and other EU nationalities' rejection of the evil artifice of the EU infrastructure begins.

The European Union and its goal of a borderless Europe, the euro common currency, a common police force—EUROPOL—benefits only one major and influential group: the pedophile network that dominates the EU and individual member states like the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, and others. The Schengen system, which drops intra-European border controls, permits pedophiles, even those with prior criminal records, to travel unchallenged throughout the Schengen group of countries. Schengen also permits pedophiles to transport kidnapped minors across national boundaries. The euro permits the pedophile networks to engage in money laundering with ease. The EU enables investors to build and maintain "family friendly" resort complexes in countries like Portugal, Spain, and France. These resorts actually cater to the whims of pedophiles. The EU also supports the political and social "rights" of various practitioners of sexual deviancy, which provides legal cover for pedophiles to establish various NGOs across Europe to push their political agenda. Two such outfits are the UK's Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and its ally, the National Council for Civil Liberties, which advocate for the decriminalization of sex between adults and children as young as ten years of age. In other words, the EU and member states like the UK have enabled a virtual continental-wide paradise for pedophiles.

Comment: And it's not just an EU problem: Men Who Hate Women: The Franklin Scandal and the Truth About Our Leaders

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Attention

UN Chief slams Israel as Netanyahu approves more housing for West Bank settlement


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:29 UTC
West Bank Settlements
© AFP 2016/ Thomas Coex
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has hit out at Israel following the approval of a new wave of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, labeling the decision "deeply disappointing." It comes just days after international diplomats warned such actions could erode the possibility of a two-state solution.

Ban reaffirmed his opposition towards the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian Territories, saying that they "are illegal under international law" and called on the Israeli government to "halt and reverse such decisions in the interest of peace and a just final status agreement."

The criticism came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved the planning of 560 new Jewish homes to be built in the Maale Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem.


​The settlement, established in 1975, already has a population of 37,000.

Comment: See: The Jewish colonization of Palestine: Why Palestinian violence against its illegal occupiers is absolutely justified

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Chess

Pepe Escobar: Chilcot report reveals Blair was a puppet of the US Empire who followed Bush's lead in declaring war in Iraq

Pepe Escobar
RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:52 UTC
bush blair chilcot
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
It's all here; 12 volumes, 2.6 million words (almost four-and-a-half times as long as War and Peace), seven years in the making, including analyses of 150,000 British government documents.

Chaired by Sir John Chilcot, former Whitehall insider, and officially known as "the Iraq Inquiry", this Proustian investigation allegedly explores every nook and cranny in the UK's run-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq as well as its aftermath.

Let's cut to the chase. This is not a whitewash by the British establishment; it's actually much stronger than many analysts expected. Advance leaks had hinted blame would be apportioned to quite a few figures in the UK's politico/military/intel apparatus - and that's indeed the case.

The key questions are known to all. Did Tony Blair lie about the need to go to war? Was the war legal? Did the war - as Blair vociferously promised - make Britain "safer"? What did Blair promise George Bush? Did he lie about those non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)? Was MI6 intelligence compromised? Did the British military fail to stand up to Blair?

It will take days to get through the whole report. But based on Chilcot's own initial statement, some conclusions are absolutely stark. There was "no need" to go to war in March 2003. All decisions were made "on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments".
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Airplane

Dutch MH17 crash investigators visit Moscow for 2-day visit


RFE/RL
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:41 UTC
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Representatives of the Joint International Criminal Investigation Team have arrived in Moscow to discuss their probe into the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine two years ago.

Team spokesman Wim de Bruin told TASS on July 5 that the delegation of investigators, prosecutors, and police will stay in Moscow for two days to discuss the downing of the Boeing 777, which investigators have said was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile, killing all 298 people on board.

He did not disclose who he would meet with and said he would not make any statements on the Moscow visit. Interfax reported that the team would meet with representatives from Russia's defense sector.

Comment: Very curious! The two-year anniversary of the downing of MH17 is coming in just a couple weeks. Consider these two facts: 1) Western governments and media have unanimously blamed Russia and/or Russian-backed rebels for downing the jet. 2) Russia has not been officially blamed by the official investigative bodies charged with the task of investigating the incident. The most likely possibility: Russia is innocent, which puts said bodies in a bind - they know Russia didn't do it, but they can't blame the guilty (Ukrainian?) parties for 'political' reasons.

Update
During the talks, "Russia has once again confirmed its unconditional commitment to maximum efficient, swift cooperation with the Netherlands in order to clarify the circumstances of this terrible tragedy," Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said in statement.
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The Prosecutor General's Office said that it saw "the most thorough and timely execution of the latest Dutch request for legal assistance" as its main objective of the Moscow meeting.

Russia's Investigative Committee also expressed its readiness to provide all the necessary assistance to the MH17 crash probe. However, it stressed that "the transfer of information related to the plane crash is, to date, carried out unilaterally" by Russia.

"The Dutch side isn't sharing the data it possesses with the Russian side, although the bilateral exchange of information would have sped up the investigation multifold," Vladimir Markin, an Investigative Committee representative, said in a statement.

Markin also drew attention to the fact that the Netherlands-led investigation is "ignoring calls for the Ukrainian side to provide such important information... as primary radar data, the conversations of military air traffic controllers and recordings of negotiations of the military sector."


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Israeli police authorize lethal force against Palestinians suspected of throwing stones

Nigel Wilson
Al Jazeera
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:42 UTC
palestinian throw stones
© Reuters
Israeli police have been authorised to use lethal force as a first resort against Palestinians throwing stones, firebombs or fireworks, according to documents revealed by human rights group Adalah.

The latest open-fire regulations for Israeli police officers were approved and sent to officers in December, following two months of sporadic stabbing and vehicular attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces in Jerusalem, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Stone throwers face 20 years in Israeli jail

The regulations include authorisation for officers to use live ammunition against Palestinians, including minors, suspected of throwing stones or firebombs, or those who appear likely to be about to commit such an offence.


Comment: This is basically a green light for Israeli police to shoot any Palestinian at any time and then claim the person "appeared likely" to throw stones.


It also gives police officers authorisation to use lethal force as a first option in such cases.
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The Jewish colonization of Palestine: Why Palestinian violence against its illegal occupiers is absolutely justified

Stephen Gowans
what's left
Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:27 UTC
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It is easy for us who have never been victims of foreign conquest and are still living in our homes to vehemently denounce the violence of evicted Palestinians." [1]
"Palestine is an occupied land stolen from its native people and time does not make it a property of the thief."[2]
In 1939, Hitler ordered Poland to be depopulated and colonized by Germans. Poland had a substantial Jewish population. Less than 10 years later, in 1947 and 1948, Zionists—who, like Hitler, believed that Jews were a national collectivity, in addition to being a religious one, and that Jews ought to establish a homeland outside of Europe—ethnically cleansed Palestine, a former Ottoman territory, of a large part of its indigenous Palestinian population. The goal was to establish a Jewish state in Palestine to be colonized by Jewish settlers, mainly from Europe. The Zionists used terrorist methods to induce the Palestinian population to flee, and refused to allow them to return, turning nearly a million of them into refugees. The property of Palestinians who took flight and were barred from returning was taken over—that is, expropriated without compensation—by Jewish settlers.

In May of 1948, Zionist forces proclaimed the formation of a Jewish state in the Palestinians' country, a date Palestinians mark as the Nakba, or catastrophe. The Jewish state controlled 78 percent of Palestine. Many of the Palestinians whom Jewish terrorists had forced from their homes lived in refugee camps in the remaining 22 percent of their country. This was made up of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. In 1967, Zionist forces completed their military conquest of Palestine in toto, imposing military rule on parts of the Palestinians' country they had failed to conquer in 1948. Since then, Israel has engaged in a process of creeping Judaization of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, building Jewish-only settlements, connecting them by Jewish-only roads, and denying building permits to Palestinians.
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Pure 'coincidence': Clinton offers new contract to attorney general, escapes indictment, cackles with glee


Moon of Alabama
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:13 UTC
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Hillary Clinton is under federal investigation for using her private, insecure email server for classified State business. Anybody else handling classified official material on a private server would have at least lost their job and would likely be indicted. But Clinton is not anybody else. She has strings to pull. She has offers to make. And she is successfully doing such. Let's follow the trail.
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Naval Reservist mishandled classified information just like Killary -- guess who was prosecuted?

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:21 UTC
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In a case that clearly highlights that the rule of law only applies to the general public — and not politically connected elites — the FBI announced they would not refer Hillary Clinton for prosecution under Section 793 of the U.S. code relating to her use of a private email server.

Section 793, subsection (f), "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," makes quite clear that intent is not a key consideration in a case like this when deciding whether to press charges:
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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